Charles D. King’s Macro has raised a $90 million minority investment from BlackRock Alternatives, HarbourView Partners and funds managed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
Macro will use the influx of capital to expand its multiplatform operations across production, branding and talent representation units, said King, who is founder and CEO of Macro. The company will also work to diversify its revenue streams with businesses that build a direct connection with consumers.
A former WME partner, King launched Macro in 2015 to focus on content that amplifies underrepresented voices to capitalize on the untapped business opportunity. Macro previously raised an additional $150 million in a 2017 round of equity and debt financing that included such investors as Emerson Collective, Ford Foundation, W.W. Kellogg Foundation and the Libra Foundation.
“With the global power of a partner like BlackRock Alternatives as well as our new additional investors, we are extremely well-positioned to build on the...
Macro will use the influx of capital to expand its multiplatform operations across production, branding and talent representation units, said King, who is founder and CEO of Macro. The company will also work to diversify its revenue streams with businesses that build a direct connection with consumers.
A former WME partner, King launched Macro in 2015 to focus on content that amplifies underrepresented voices to capitalize on the untapped business opportunity. Macro previously raised an additional $150 million in a 2017 round of equity and debt financing that included such investors as Emerson Collective, Ford Foundation, W.W. Kellogg Foundation and the Libra Foundation.
“With the global power of a partner like BlackRock Alternatives as well as our new additional investors, we are extremely well-positioned to build on the...
- 3/6/2023
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
KollywoodKS Manikandan of 'Kanna Laddu Thinna Aasaiya' fame will be directing the film.Digital NativeA brand new biopic on the late actor Silk Smitha is on cards, according to reports. Reports are that Ks Manikandan of Kanna Laddu Thinna Aasaiya fame will be wielding the megaphone for this venture which will be bankrolled by Chithra Lakshmanan and H Murali under their respective banners Gayathri Films and Murali Cine Arts. The prep work for this project titled Aval Appadithan is currently on and the shooting is likely to begin next month. Speaking about the project in an interview to the Times of India, director Ks Manikandan said, “Her hotness quotient too has been unmatched till date. And to play her character, we are trying to get the right person who can do justice to the role.” While fans are eager to know who would be playing Silk Smitha in the biopic Aval Appadithaan,...
- 10/4/2020
- by Anjana
- The News Minute
Viacom 18 Motion Pictures’ super hit film Queen is still basking in the glory of the long list of accolades that are pouring in for it. The Kangana starrer was a massive hit among the audience with its simplicity and powerful storyline. Kangana Ranaut stole hearts with her brilliant performance as Rani – a girl from Delhi who goes on a honeymoon albeit alone. The film was such a success that it stole the show at the Filmfare award ceremony held on Saturday, 31st January 2015.
This year, the Filmfare was a lavish affair which saw the who’s who of the industry present to celebrate the talent in Bollywood and Queen was the toast of the evening. This Vikas Bahl film won 6 awards at the prestigious award function.
The awards are:
Best Actor Female: Kangana Ranaut Best Film: Queen Brest Director: Vikas Bahl Best Cinematographer: Bobby Singh and Siddharth Diwan for Queen...
This year, the Filmfare was a lavish affair which saw the who’s who of the industry present to celebrate the talent in Bollywood and Queen was the toast of the evening. This Vikas Bahl film won 6 awards at the prestigious award function.
The awards are:
Best Actor Female: Kangana Ranaut Best Film: Queen Brest Director: Vikas Bahl Best Cinematographer: Bobby Singh and Siddharth Diwan for Queen...
- 2/3/2015
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
The winners for the 60th Britannia Filmfare Awards have been announced with fresh new faces scoring big at the prestigious ceremony. Female-oriented comedy/drama Queen scooped up the most awards this year, with leading lady Kangana Ranaut deservedly winning the Best Actress Award. The film also took home the Best Director Award for Vikas Bahl, as well as Best Film, Best Cinematography, Best Editing and Best Background Score.
Shakespearean drama Haider, which has received non-stop praise upon release, took most of the acting honours, which include Best Actor for Shahid Kapoor, Best Supporting Actor for Kay Kay Menon and Best Supporting Actress for Tabu. Alia Bhatt also received recognition for her critically-acclaimed performance in Imtiaz Ali’s Highway by receiving the award for Best Actress (Critics). Sanjay Mishra also won the Best Actor (Critics) for his performance in Ankhon Dekhi, which also took home Best Film (Critics).
Check out the full list of winners below!
Shakespearean drama Haider, which has received non-stop praise upon release, took most of the acting honours, which include Best Actor for Shahid Kapoor, Best Supporting Actor for Kay Kay Menon and Best Supporting Actress for Tabu. Alia Bhatt also received recognition for her critically-acclaimed performance in Imtiaz Ali’s Highway by receiving the award for Best Actress (Critics). Sanjay Mishra also won the Best Actor (Critics) for his performance in Ankhon Dekhi, which also took home Best Film (Critics).
Check out the full list of winners below!
- 2/2/2015
- by Bodrul Chaudhury
- Bollyspice
Full list of winners at the Filmfare Awards 2015.
Best Actor In A Leading Role (Male) – Shahid Kapoor (Haider)
Best Actor In A Leading Role (Female) – Kangana Ranaut (Queen)
Best Film – Queen
Best Director – Vikas Bahl (Queen)
Best Film (Critics) – Ankhon Dekhi
Best Actor (Critics) – Sanjay Mishra (Ankhon Dekhi)
Best Actress (Critics) – Alia Bhatt (Highway)
Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Male) – Kay Kay Menon (Haider)
Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Female) – Tabu (Haider)
Best Story – Rajat Kapoor (Ankhon Dekhi)
Best Dialogue – Abhijat Joshi and Rajkumar Hirani (Pk)
Best Screenplay – Rajkumar Hirani and Abhijat Joshi (Pk)
Best Debut Director – Abhishek Varman (2 States)
Best Debut (Male) – Fawad Khan (Khoobsurat)
Best Debut (Female) – Kriti Sanon (Heropanti)
Best Music Director – Shankar-Eshaan-Loy (2 States)
Best Lyrics – Rashmi Singh (Muskurane Ki Wajah – CityLights)
Best Playback Singer (Male) – Ankit Tiwari (Galliyan – Ek Villain)
Best Playback Singer (Female) – Kanika Kapoor (Baby Doll – Ragini Mms 2)
Best Costume – Dolly Ahluwalia...
Best Actor In A Leading Role (Male) – Shahid Kapoor (Haider)
Best Actor In A Leading Role (Female) – Kangana Ranaut (Queen)
Best Film – Queen
Best Director – Vikas Bahl (Queen)
Best Film (Critics) – Ankhon Dekhi
Best Actor (Critics) – Sanjay Mishra (Ankhon Dekhi)
Best Actress (Critics) – Alia Bhatt (Highway)
Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Male) – Kay Kay Menon (Haider)
Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Female) – Tabu (Haider)
Best Story – Rajat Kapoor (Ankhon Dekhi)
Best Dialogue – Abhijat Joshi and Rajkumar Hirani (Pk)
Best Screenplay – Rajkumar Hirani and Abhijat Joshi (Pk)
Best Debut Director – Abhishek Varman (2 States)
Best Debut (Male) – Fawad Khan (Khoobsurat)
Best Debut (Female) – Kriti Sanon (Heropanti)
Best Music Director – Shankar-Eshaan-Loy (2 States)
Best Lyrics – Rashmi Singh (Muskurane Ki Wajah – CityLights)
Best Playback Singer (Male) – Ankit Tiwari (Galliyan – Ek Villain)
Best Playback Singer (Female) – Kanika Kapoor (Baby Doll – Ragini Mms 2)
Best Costume – Dolly Ahluwalia...
- 2/1/2015
- by Indicine Team
- indicine
DearCinema will organize the next session of IndieTalk on June 14 in Mumbai with cinematographer Siddharth Diwan, who shot Titli, the only Indian film in the official selection of Cannes Film Festival this year. This was the third consecutive year for Diwan at Cannes, a rare feat for an Indian cinematographer.
Diwan’s Peddlers (writer-director Vasan Bala) was screened in the Critics Week sidebar of Cannes in 2012. He also worked as the second unit cinematographer for Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox that was also screened in the same sidebar in 2013.
Diwan represents the new generation of Indian cinematographers who are at ease with rapidly changing technology and whose imagery is in direct contrast with Bollywood, that believes in projecting larger-than-life images of stars. He is known for working efficiently with minimal crew, on real locations and pulling off feature length films in very short schedules.
After graduating in 2011 from the Satyajit Ray...
Diwan’s Peddlers (writer-director Vasan Bala) was screened in the Critics Week sidebar of Cannes in 2012. He also worked as the second unit cinematographer for Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox that was also screened in the same sidebar in 2013.
Diwan represents the new generation of Indian cinematographers who are at ease with rapidly changing technology and whose imagery is in direct contrast with Bollywood, that believes in projecting larger-than-life images of stars. He is known for working efficiently with minimal crew, on real locations and pulling off feature length films in very short schedules.
After graduating in 2011 from the Satyajit Ray...
- 6/6/2014
- by Editorial Team
- DearCinema.com
Film: "Queen"; Cast: Kangna Ranaut, Rajkummar Rao, Lisa Hayden; Director: Vikas Bahl; Rating: ****1/2
There are some films that you simply don't want to end. And when they do, you want to spring out of your seat and give the darned thing a standing ovation. "Queen", directed by Vikas Bahl is that rarity. Its thematic elegance and narrative wisdom surpasses anything that you might have come to expect from the frothy ebullient trailers.
Frothy and ebullient, "Queen" certainly is. But it's a lot more. At the end you are left so close to the characters and their life-defining milieu that the late Bobby Singh's camera lenses dissolve and merge into the very fabric of the narrative.
And to think that the film begins with.
There are some films that you simply don't want to end. And when they do, you want to spring out of your seat and give the darned thing a standing ovation. "Queen", directed by Vikas Bahl is that rarity. Its thematic elegance and narrative wisdom surpasses anything that you might have come to expect from the frothy ebullient trailers.
Frothy and ebullient, "Queen" certainly is. But it's a lot more. At the end you are left so close to the characters and their life-defining milieu that the late Bobby Singh's camera lenses dissolve and merge into the very fabric of the narrative.
And to think that the film begins with.
- 3/6/2014
- by Rahul Kapoor
- RealBollywood.com
Starring: Akshay Kumar,Manoj Bajpai, Anupam Kher, Jimmy Sheirgil, Rajesh Sharma, Kishore Kadam, Kajal Aggarwal
Written & Directed by Neeraj Pandey
Gimme raid, said the fake Cbi officers who in a daredevil swoop-down on a well-known jewellery outlet in Mumbai in 1983, escaped with a loot worth lakhs. If done today it would have been a heist worth crores.
But that’s the devilish beauty of Neeraj Pandey’s second feature film. Though set in a world where lakhs were a large fortune, he gives us a caper-thriller worth crores. The period detailing of the 1980s-the cars, hotel lobbies, clothes, hairstyle and most importantly, the attitude to wealth acquisition(scams were unknown back then, scandals were as far as the financials over-reachers went)-they all add a lustre of underscored believability to the proceedings.
Morality is a prime casualty in the tale. And if crime should not be allowed to pay in...
Written & Directed by Neeraj Pandey
Gimme raid, said the fake Cbi officers who in a daredevil swoop-down on a well-known jewellery outlet in Mumbai in 1983, escaped with a loot worth lakhs. If done today it would have been a heist worth crores.
But that’s the devilish beauty of Neeraj Pandey’s second feature film. Though set in a world where lakhs were a large fortune, he gives us a caper-thriller worth crores. The period detailing of the 1980s-the cars, hotel lobbies, clothes, hairstyle and most importantly, the attitude to wealth acquisition(scams were unknown back then, scandals were as far as the financials over-reachers went)-they all add a lustre of underscored believability to the proceedings.
Morality is a prime casualty in the tale. And if crime should not be allowed to pay in...
- 2/10/2013
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
The film industry is shocked by the sudden death of cinematographer Bobby Singh. He passed away in Goa following an asthma attack. Filmmaker Anurag Basu who worked with the cinematographer in films like ‘Gangster’, ‘Life In A Metro’, ‘Woh Lamhe’ is totally shattered over Bobby’s sudden death. Expressing his shock, he says, "Bobby was one of my closest friends. Our relationship went way beyond work. What can I say? I can't believe he's gone. I am just hoping it's a prank and that I'll be soon told he's still around. Bobby was one of the most jovial persons I've met." No sooner Anurag Basu heard the news, he flew down to Goa. ...
- 12/27/2012
- Bollywoodmantra.com
The Bollywood industry has received a terrible blow due to the death of the young cinematographer Bobby Singh. He was only 38. Bobby Singh was a great cinematographer and has worked in some of the leading projects in the Bollywood industry. He held a great position of repute in the eyes of the actors, directors and producers. He has shown his brilliance in the films ‘Life…in a Metro’, ‘The Dirty Picture’, ‘Woh Lamhe’, ‘Jannat 2’, and ‘Gangster’. He died this Tuesday. The entire Bollywood industry has expressed terrible grief at such a huge loss. Bobby was in Goa with his family in order to celebrate Christmas. O...
- 12/27/2012
- Bollywoodmantra.com
Bollywood stars have expressed their shock at the sudden death of Bobby Singh. The cinematographer - who worked on films such as Woh Lamhe, Life in a... Metro, Gangster and The Dirty Picture - died on Christmas Day in Goa after suffering an asthma attack. He was 38. Writing on Twitter, Akshay Kumar said: "Shocked to hear about the sad demise of our film Special Chabbis cinematographer Bobby Singh. He was very talented and pleasant to work with. It just seems like yesterday when we were shooting. May his soul rest in peace." Manoj Bajpayee tweeted: "Shattered to hear the untimely demise of our friend cameraman Bobby Singh! May he rest in peace! God please give strength to his family. We worked together in Special Chabbis. Can't believe this shocking news." Jimmy Sheirgill said: "Shocked (more)...
- 12/26/2012
- by By Priya Joshi
- Digital Spy
Bollywood's well-known cinematographer Bobby Singh passed away at the age of 38. As per the latest reports, Bobby suffered an asthma attack due to an allergic reaction caused by eating crabs. The lens man was holidaying with his family in Goa after wrapping the shoot of Special Chabbis starring Akshay Kumar.Bobby Singh started his career as an assistant with Raj Sippy's film Shezade. He has worked on films like Gangster, Woh Lamhe, Jannat 2, Life In Metro, The Dirty Picture a...
- 12/26/2012
- GlamSham
Mumbai, Dec 26: From actors Akshay Kumar, Manoj Bajpayee to filmmakers Mahesh Bhatt and Onir - a bevy of Bollywood celebrities have expressed shock over the sudden demise of cinematographer Bobby Singh, who passed away following an asthma attack in Goa.
Singh, who has worked on films like "Woh Lamhe", "Life In A... Metro", "Gangster" and "The Dirty Picture", died Tuesday. He was 38.
B-town took to Twitter to express its grief.
Akshay Kumar: Shocked to hear about the sad demise of our film 'Special Chabbis' cinematographer Bobby Singh. He was very talented and pleasant to work with. It just seems like yesterday when.
Singh, who has worked on films like "Woh Lamhe", "Life In A... Metro", "Gangster" and "The Dirty Picture", died Tuesday. He was 38.
B-town took to Twitter to express its grief.
Akshay Kumar: Shocked to hear about the sad demise of our film 'Special Chabbis' cinematographer Bobby Singh. He was very talented and pleasant to work with. It just seems like yesterday when.
- 12/26/2012
- by Rahul Kapoor
- RealBollywood.com
Mumbai, Dec 26: Cinematographer Bobby Singh, who has worked on films like "Gangster" and "The Dirty Picture", died Tuesday following an asthma attack in Goa, actor Sanjay Suri said. He was 38.
He is survived by his wife Radhika and five-year-old son Sumer. Singh's body will be taken to Ahmedabad where his parents stay. One of the youngest cinematographers in Bollywood, Singh was on a vacation to Goa with his family.
Actor Sanjay Suri was present with Singh in Goa.
"I was with Bobby on that day but I was not with him in the last 20 minutes when all this happened. Suddenly, asthmatic attack triggered and there were rashes.
He is survived by his wife Radhika and five-year-old son Sumer. Singh's body will be taken to Ahmedabad where his parents stay. One of the youngest cinematographers in Bollywood, Singh was on a vacation to Goa with his family.
Actor Sanjay Suri was present with Singh in Goa.
"I was with Bobby on that day but I was not with him in the last 20 minutes when all this happened. Suddenly, asthmatic attack triggered and there were rashes.
- 12/26/2012
- by Smith Cox
- RealBollywood.com
“Only three things work in the film industry,” says Balan’s character, ”Entertainment, Entertainment and Entertainment.” While many Bollywood movies have been exploiting this fact to the core with “entertainment” solely replacing content, Ekta Kapoor’s and Milan Luthria’s The Dirty Picture proves a point that you can serve both entertainment and good content together. And yes, if the promos have made an impression that this movie is all sex, then you couldn’t be more wrong. For the makers of this movie have definitely ensured that what you take home from this movie is a complete package.
Though the movie claims to be a fictionalized account, it isn’t difficult to see that it definitely is based on the 80’s south siren Silk Smitha’s life. Having run away from her home the night before her marriage, Reshma (Vidya Balan), has only one dream: to make it big...
Though the movie claims to be a fictionalized account, it isn’t difficult to see that it definitely is based on the 80’s south siren Silk Smitha’s life. Having run away from her home the night before her marriage, Reshma (Vidya Balan), has only one dream: to make it big...
- 12/3/2011
- by Prateeksha Khot
- Bollyspice
Balaji Motion Pictures' next film The Dirty Picture will go on floors on 30 May.The musical drama will be shot in Mumbai and Hyderabad.Starring Vidya Balan, Naseeruddin Shah, Emraan Hashmi and Tusshar Kapoor, the movie will be directed by Milan Luthria.It has been written by Rajat Aroraa and has music by Vishal & Shekhar, cinematography by Bobby Singh, choreography by Pony Verma, editing by Akiv Ali and costume design by Niharika Khan. The movie is produced by Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor. It is slated for a release later this ...
- 5/27/2011
- BusinessofCinema
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